Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society (Women and Change in the Developing World)

Lockwood, Victoria S.

ISBN 10: 155587391X / ISBN 13: 9781555873912

Published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, 1992

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Unread book in excellent condition. Spine tight with no creases. Pages clean and unmarked.

As culturally diverse, non-Western communities are drawn into the international division of labor, capitalism takes root in a number of ways. This book describes how capitalism has become a part of the lives of rural Tahitians, starting with the arrival of Westerners to the islands and detailing the nature of the transformation wrought by missionaries, merchants, and French colonizers?transformation whose pace has accelerated with the islands' rapid modernization and incorporation into the French welfare state.

Lockwood's analysis of the impact of capitalism centers around two major themes in Third World development: the structural changes that take place in non-Western socioeconomic systems as capitalist methods of production overwhelm indigenous economic organization; and the nature of the increasing social, economic, and political subordination of women that accompanies Westernization.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tahitian Transformation: Gender and Capitalist Development in a Rural Society (Women and Change in the Developing World)
• Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155587391X
• ISBN 13: 9781555873912
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New
• Dimensions: 1.27W x 15.24H x 22.23D centimeters 1.27 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.23 centimeters depth
• Weight: 1 pound

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Book by Lockwood, Victoria S.